It’s time to set the developing world free. It’s time to start asking what creates wealth. Watch this video and find out why $2 trillion in economic aid has merely created dependency. Entrepreneurship creates wealth. Business is the way that people rise out of poverty.

Here are the main points of the video:

The reason there will be no change in the poor through distribution of aid is that the people who stand to lose by change (U.N. and foreign governments) have all the power. The people who stand [...]

Watch this short video to see how the War on Poverty has failed. The welfare state has been a disaster for the less fortunate, creating a flypaper effect that makes it difficult for people to lead independent and self-reliant lives. This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video shows how the poverty rate was falling after World War II but stopped after the government declared a War on Poverty.

Here are the main points made in the video:

The Left contends that government should help the poor with “means [...]

Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education , an organization that promotes market based public policy to fight poverty. She is also the author of Uncle Sam’s Plantation. Parker grew up poor in East St Louis and on welfare. She lifted herself out of welfare and today promotes free enterprise solutions to poverty. Watch her interview on Varney & Co. – Fox Business.

This week’s lesson will provide a short video each day explaining why the War on Poverty failed and people are poor and how to solve the problem. Today, watch this short video by Robert Rector, Senior Research Fellow Heritage Foundation, that reveals the size of welfare programs and provides the single most important way to reduce poverty.

Here are the main points that Rector makes:

The great secret is the cost of welfare. People consider Social Security and Medicare as huge programs that will bankrupt us. However, most people [...]